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You ignore the immense pressure he was under by Republicans at the time. Any precautions were terribly unpopular among half the country and in the White House.
Again, this is normal. All bureaucrats were under immense pressure, it was an unprecedented situation. He faced no personal consequences whatsoever for the unpopularity of his policies and wrote in his diary how pleased he was about the positive attention he was getting. He wasn't drafted in, he chose a highly public-facing, political appointment.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Standard political appointee willing to hold a highly public position. A mildly narcissistic pen-pusher.
But the key thing here is not Fauci's character, it's the fact that none of the terrible things the nurse mentioned had anything to do with him. He didn't personally do anything to prevent them, he didn't come up with any ideas, he didn't 'fight the system' to get some concession that no one else wanted. He just followed advice, and he didn't even do that as well as others did.
No, this is not normal, and never should be. I know of no country where politicians of the ruling party are still trying to nail their former secretary of health to the wall with absolutely insane arguments and even trying to throw him in jail.
And if a mountain of death threats is not a personal consequence, I don't know what is.
Politicians trying to make appointees look bad is standard practice. David Kelly was literally driven to suicide by the pressure to relent over Iraq.
People have been calling for his death non-stop ever since the beginning of COVID.
Again, he chose a job in the public eye. He wasn't drafted in. And he literally wrote in his diary that he was enjoying the attention.
You're grotesque
Oh, and stupid.